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COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

No.
... Pages.
16 Mail road from Washington to New Orleans, February 1, 1805, ... 35
17 Same, February 23, 1805, ... 36
25 The purchase and fitting up a building for the accommodation of the Post Office Department and Patent Office, ... 44
31 Number of post offices, and produce of postage for six months, ending June 30, 1814, ... 47

COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE POSTMASTER GENERAL.

1 Plan for improving the Post Office Department, 1790, ... 5
2 Survey and publication of the post roads, 1790, ... 8
3 List of post offices, and the receipts and expenditures to January 5, 1790, ... 8
4 Same, for the year ending October 5, 1791, ... 13
5 Tax on mail stages in New Jersey, February 9, 1793, ... 15
6 Execution of the Post Office law relative to mail contracts, December 20, 1794, ... 15
8 Alterations proposed to the Post Office laws, January 8, 1799, ... 17
10 Number of post offices and length of post roads, January 25, 1803, ... 28
14 Receipts from postage from October 1, 1800, to September 30, 1803, ... 30
15 Additional allowance recommended to Robert Henderson, a mail contractor, ... 34
18 Claim of Henry Weist, a mail contractor, for additional allowance, ... 38
19 Obstructions to the transmission of the mail from Athens, in Georgia, to New Orleans, ... 39
21 Progress of the Post Office Department from March 3, 1793, to January 12, 1807, ... 40
22 Revision of the Post Office laws, February 22, 1810, ... 41
23 Claim of Samuel Gordon, a mail carrier, for a disability contracted in discharge of his duty, ... 43
24 View of the Post Office establishment from 1789 to 1809, ... 43
26 Remonstrance against the delivery of letters, papers, and packets at the post offices on the Sabbath, (a memorial of sundry citizens of Philadelphia accompanies this,) ... 44
28 Condition of the Post Office Department after the incursion of the enemy in 1814, ... 46
32 Reduction of postage, ... 48
33 Compensation of postmasters, 1816, ... 49
37 Same, 1819, ... 62
42 Receipts and expenditures from 1816 to 1821, inclusive, ... 90
43 Compensation to deputies and mail agents; effect of steamboats on the revenue of the Post Office, ... 92
48 Receipts and expenditures for 1821 and 1822, ... 109
49 Postage on books; expense of carrying certain mails, ... 111
50 Number of distributing offices, ... 113
51 Compensation of postmasters, ... 113
53 Extent of post roads, and receipts and expenditures for three years, May 21, 1824, ... 115
54 Condition of the Post Office Department, 1824, ... 118
55 Post route from New Orleans to Washington, ... 119
56 Extent of the several mail routes, and the expense of transportation, January 14, 1825, ... 120
57 Mail route between Baltimore and Philadelphia, ... 136
58 Condition of the Post Office Department, 1825, ... 137
61 Franking privilege of deputy postmasters, ... 141
62 Acceleration of the southern mail and the management of the post office at Washington, ... 141
63 Condition of the Post Office Department, 1826, ... 144
66 Transfer of contracts, and cost of transporting the mail on certain routes, 1827, ... 146
67 Condition of the Post Office Department, 1827, ... 155
68 Nett amount of postage accruing at each office for the year ending March 31, 1827, ... 156

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69 Making and repairing post road between Cincinnati and Portland, in Ohio, ... 180
72 Condition of the Post Office Department, 1828, ... 183
73 Nett amount of postage accruing at each office for the year ending March 31, 1828, ... 184
76 Condition of the Post Office Department, 1829, ... 215
86 Post routes on which the mail is transported on Sunday, March 4, 1830, ... 226
88 Improvement of the post road from Zanesville, in Ohio, to Florence, in Alabama, 1830, ... 241
90 Deputy postmasters removed, from March 4, 1829, to March 22, 1830, ... 242
95 Advances for printing; changes in certain contracts; newspapers in which advertisements for proposals are published; extra clerks; alterations, repairs, and furniture; incompetent contractors; duties of the Assistant Postmaster General, May 5, 1830, ... 249
96 Condition of the Post Office Department, December 7, 1830, ... 256
102 Irregularity of the eastern mail, February 11, 1831, ... 262
105 Nett amount of postage accruing at each post office for the year ending March 31, 1830, ... 265
106 Receipts and expenditures from the establishment of the Department to April 1, 1829, ... 296
108 Expenditures for the year ending July 1, 1830, ... 298
111 Condition of the Post Office Department, November 28, 1831, ... 337
113 Postage on newspapers and periodicals, January 10, 1832, ... 338
121 Condition of the Post Office Department, December 4, 1832, ... 350
127 Cost of transporting the mail in each State, including the expenses of post offices and extra allowances made to contractors, February 21, 1833, ... 356
2 [Appendix.] Condition of the Post Office Department, November 17, 1823, ... 359

COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

40 Statement of the accounts of the Post Office Department, to December 31, 1816, ... 74
45 Accounts of the General Post Office, 1822, ... 94

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE.

9 Further provision for transporting the mail, March 17, 1802, ... 21
12 Carriage of the mail in stages or covered wagons, ... 29
30 Sunday mails, January 27, 1815, ... 47
38 Guards for the mails, ... 62
47 Proposition to exempt State laws from postage, ... 109
60 Extra allowance to John Donly, a mail contractor, ... 139
64 Salary of the Postmaster General, 1827, ... 145
65 Relief of Nathaniel Patten, a deputy postmaster, from whom money was stolen, ... 146
70 Breach of contract, case of William Mickler, ... 181
71 Postage on pamphlets, ... 183
74 Sunday mails, (by R. M. Johnson,) 1829, ... 211
93 Claim for making post road from Mobile to Pascagoula, April 28, 1830, ... 246
109 Condition of the Post Office Department, (report of J. M. Clayton,) March 3, 1831, ... 301
120 Postage on newspapers, (report of Mr. Grundy,) May 19, 1832, ... 346
124 Reduction of the rates of postage, January 22, 1833, ... 354
126 Application for carrying the mail on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in steamboats, February 20, 1833, ... 355

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

7 Revision of the Post Office law, April 4, 1796, ... 16
11 Mail from Washington to New Orleans, ... 28
13 Same, ... 30
20 Inquiry into the conduct of the Postmaster General, ... 40
27 Sunday mails, January 3, 1812, ... 45
29 Same, January 20, 1815, ... 46
34 Investigation into the fiscal operations of the General Post Office, 1816, ... 50
35 Indemnity to Alan Farquhar for money lost in the mail, ... 61
36 Branch of the General Post Office in one of the western States, 1818, ... 61
39 Receipts and expenditures of the Post Office Department from its establishment to January 1, 1818, ... 63
41 Investigation of the affairs of the Post Office Department, 1821, ... 77
44 Security of the mails, ... 93
46 Investigation of the affairs of the Post Office Department, 1822, ... 97
52 Remission of a penalty to Henry Lightner, ... 114
59 Defalcation of Samuel B. Crocket, a deputy postmaster, ... 139
75 Sunday mails, 1829, ... 212
80 Sureties of G. L. Dox, a defaulting deputy postmaster, ... 220
81 Additional clerks, ... 222
82 Reward for apprehending the robber of the post office at Florence, in Alabama, ... 224
83 Surety of John Garretson, a defaulting deputy postmaster, ... 224
84 Sureties of Charles Josslyn, a defaulting deputy postmaster, ... 225
85 Increase of the pension of a mail carrier who was shot in the Creek nation in 1805, ... 225

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87 Sunday mails, (report of R. M. Johnson,) March 4 and 5, 1830, ... 229
89 Improvement of the post road between Memphis and Tuscumbia, March 15, 1830, ... 242
91 Condition of the General Post Office, April 14, 1830, ... 142
92 Patrick Green, a mail guard, disabled in service, April 19, 1830, ... 245
94 Sureties of Solomon Southwick, a defaulting deputy postmaster, April 29, 1830, ... 247
97 Defalcation of Barnard Kelley, a deputy postmaster, occasioned by the burning of his office, Dec. 7, 1830, ... 258
98 Further credits claimed by William Neusum, a defaulting deputy postmaster, December 29, 1830, ... 259
99 Additional compensation claimed by George King, senior, a deputy postmaster, January 7, 1831, ... 260
107 Claim for making the post road from Mobile to Pascagoula, March 1, 1831, ... 297
112 Increase of pension of J. H. Webb, a mail carrier, who was shot in the Creek nation in 1805, Dec. 28, 1831, ... 338
114 William McBride, a defaulting deputy postmaster, ... 339
115 John Trafton, a deputy postmaster, asks reimbursement of damages and costs incurred in a libel suit, January 25, 1832, ... 340
117 Error in a contractor's bond corrected, March 8, 1832, ... 343
118 Further credits claimed by William Newsom, a defaulting deputy postmaster, April 11, 1832, ... 344
119 Accountability of the Post Office Department, April 20, 1832, ... 345
122 Additional compensation to postmaster at Jackson, Mississippi, December 20, 1832, ... 353
123 Credits claimed by William Walker, a defaulting deputy postmaster, for losses occasioned by fire, Jan. 7, 1833, ... 253
125 Indemnity asked by Reeside and Robinson, mail contractors, for the loss of a stage and horses, Feb. 6, 1832, ... 355
1 [Appendix.] Report in House of Representatives on sundry petitions and memorials, in relation to the transportation of the mail on Sunday, March 1, 1817, ... 357
MEMORIALS, PETITIONS, APPLICATIONS, &c.
77 Application of Indiana for new mail routes, ... 217
78 Application of Illinois for the improvement of a post road, ... 218
79 Application of Indiana and Illinois for the improvement of a post road from Louisville, Kentucky, to St. Louis, Missouri, ... 219
100 Joint resolution of Alabama Legislature in relation to Sunday mails, January 22, 1831, ... 260
101 Remonstrance of citizens of Kentucky in relation to Sunday mails, January 31, 1831, ... 261
103 Resolutions of State of Illinois relative to Sunday mails, February 14, 1831, ... 262
104 Resolutions and memorial of citizens of Windham county, Vermont, assembled at Wilmington, relative to Sunday mails February 24, 1831, ... 263
110 Remonstrance of Abraham Bradley against certain misstatements contained in the report which the Postmaster General made to the Senate on the 7th of February, 1831, in relation to extra allowances made to contractors, March 3, 1831, ... 336
116 Memorial of citizens of Boston relative to postage on newspapers and periodicals, February 13, 1832, ... 341

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